India's Martian Triumph

India joined the elite ranks of nations with spacecraft orbiting Mars this week, to the huzzahs of the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and the scientists at the Indian Space and Research Organization in Bangalore who made the mission possible. Mangalyaan, or "Mars craft" in Hindi, is already transmitting photos and tweeting greetings to Nasa's Curiosity Rover. What better symbol of a nation escaping socialism's orbit than to fling a technological wonder past Earth's gravitational pull?